Problem solving

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Which is your favourite problem in the Problem Solving box?

Can you make the same pattern with icecreams?
Take 3 flavours - apricot, banana and caramel.
What patterns can you make. Use the icecream shapes in the Problem Solving box. to help you. Can you solve it with a friend?

We have been learning about patterning.
We worked in groups with the numbers 1,2 and 3 to find the right number plates to solve this problem.
This is what we found.

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Can you solve this one?

John had 3 pictures on the wall. His friends had 2 each. John has 2 friends.

How many pictures do the 3 boys have altogether ?


Some people added all of the numbers and made 11 pictures.
The class worked in groups and found that ...
John had 1 2 3
friend 1 had 1 2
friend 2 had 1 2
that made 7 pictures altogether.
Tino pai to the people who could quickly solve the problem in their head.


Doubles

Look what we discovered!
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 4
3 + 3 = 6
4 + 4 = 8
5 + 5 = 10
6 + 6 = 12
7 + 7 = 14
8 + 8 = 16
9 + 9 = 18
10 + 10 = 20

We found that the answers were adding in two's - 2's.

2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20

Room 8 has been looking at 20.

We have been counting to 20, finding numbers before and after 20, making 20 in many different ways. Look at some ways we made 20.

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We counted the cards in groups of 5 and the dominoes in groups of 10.

We counted 4 groups of 5 cards. We counted 2 groups of 10 dominoes.



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We made a set of 20 crayons and a set of 20 blocks.

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How did we count these blocks?

They are counted in groups of ........?

Can you find the number?